English Explanatory Dictionary

cutter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
  2. A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
  3. A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
  4. A foretooth; an incisor.
  5. A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
  6. A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
  7. A cut fastball.
  8. A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
  9. A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
  10. A surgeon.
  11. An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
  12. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈkʌtɚ/ /ˈkʌtə/ en-au-cutter.ogg

Word forms

cutter cutters

Etymology

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

Synonyms

slasher splash splasher jooker nank shank bassy rambo pokey chete ying

Derived words

biscuit cutter bolt cutter boxcutter box cutter box-cutter breadcutter brushcutter cane cutter canecutter chaff cutter cheese cutter cigar cutter clearcutter coalcutter concrete cutter cookie-cutter cookie cutter copy cutter cord-cutter corncutter cutter and paster cutterhead cutterman cutter-off cutter-offer daisy-cutter daisy cutter dark cutter diamond cutter egg cutter endocutter fly cutter forecutter gem-cutter gemcutter gem cutter glasscutter glass cutter grasscutter haircutter histocutter leaf cutter leaf-cutter leafcutter leaf-cutter ant leaf-cutter bee leg cutter milling cutter nail cutter negative cutter off cutter overcutter paper cutter phlegm-cutter pipe cutter pisscutter pizza cutter plantcutter punchcutter revenue cutter

Translations

Armenian: կատեր Belarusian: ка́тэр Belarusian: ка́тар Bulgarian: ка́тер Estonian: kaater Finnish: kutteri Finnish: viiltelijä Georgian: კატარღა Japanese: カッター Korean: 커터 Macedonian: ка́тер Russian: ка́тер Ukrainian: ка́тер Uzbek: kater Danish: cutter
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